Reported for WGA picket duty today outside Fox at 47th and Sixth Avenue. I’ve never walked a picket line in my life, so circling a half block radius for four straight hours (minus ten minutes when the sainted Margaret Clark, one of my Pocket Book editors across the street, provided bathroom relief for me) was a new experience to put it mildly.
A ton of celebrities such as Robin Williams and Alec Baldwin showed up to express solidarity…on previous days. No one turned out for us today, so that kinda sucked.
At one point a guy with a microphone, identifying himself as being from Sirius Satellite radio, pulled myself and another writer, a distinguished looking older fellow named Michael St. Germain, aside and asked if he could interview us. We shrugged and said sure. He had a list of questions and the first couple seemed straightforward enough. But St. Germain was looking at him suspiciously and suddenly said, “You’re from Howard Stern, aren’t you.” The guy nodded. That immediately flipped a switch in my mind, so that–moments later–when the questions turned skewed (“If UPS makes a delivery to your home, are you forbidden from signing for it since you’re not allowed to write?”) I was able to roll with it rather than say, “Huh?” So that was lucky.
Met several staffers from the Colbert Report, which was also cool.
Will be back at it next week. I hope this doesn’t drag on, but suspect it will.
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